Dumping-car.



A. BECKER.

DUMPING GAB..

APPLICATION FILED MAY zo, 1910.

Patented June 13,1911.

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A. BECKER. DUMPING GAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2o, 1910.

Patented June 13, 1911.

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DUMPING OAR.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY zo, 1910.

Patented June 13, 1911.

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s narrar ANTON BECKER, 0F COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE RALSTON STEELCAR COMPANY, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

DUMPIN Gr-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Application led May 20, 1910. Serial No. 562,536.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON BECKER, of Columbus, in the county of Franklinand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDumping-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in dumping cars,-one object ofthe invention being to provide simple and eflicient means for convertingsuch a car from a gondola to .a hopper bottom type and vice versa.

A further object is to so mount hinged floor sections of a convertiblecar, as to prevent clogging at the hinged edges of such floor sections.

`With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter setforth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a transverse sectional view ofa car embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a lon* gitudinal sectionalview. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. l is a transverse sectional view onthe line @#a of Fig. 2, and Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are detail viewsillustrating the hinge connection for the floor sections.

1 represents a center girder comprising parallel channel members 2connected at their tops by a cover plate 3,-the said center girder beingthus of the box girder type.

The channels 2 of the center girder have secured to their inner faces attheir lower edges, angle-irons l and to these angle irons and theoutwardly projecting flanges at the lower edges of the center girdermembers, the intermediate portions of compression members 5 are secured.The members 5 consist of channel-beams which are secured to the loweredges of U -shaped cross-bearer member 6 and the outer ends of saidchannel beams are secured to the bottom flanges of channel beam sidesills 7 and to reinforcing angles 8 secured to said side sills.

The center girder l extends from end to end of the car and thecross-bearer 6 is located at the center of the car. At the ends of thecar struct-ure, end sills 9 are secured to the side sills and centergirder. VInclined hopper plates l() are secured to the sides of thecross-bearer G and extend an appreciable distance below the same,-theupper ends of said hopper plates being riveted to the upper inwardlyprojecting flanges of the side sills and provided at their lower edgeswith angle-barsV lla. At the outer ends of the hopper plates 10, hopperends 11 are secured by means of angle-irons l2 and the inner edges ofthese hopper ends are flanged and secured to the center girder as shownat 13 Fig. 8. At points between the crossbearer 6 and the hopper endsl1, the hopper plates 10 are braced by means oit' anglebars 14 securedat one end to the lower portions of said hopper plates and at theirother ends to the bottom flanges of the side sills.

Bolsters vl5 are located beyond the ends of the hopper bottom and eachof these bolsters comprises two diaphragms 1G secured at their innerends to the center girder members and at their outer ends to the sidesills, the lower edges of the bolster diaphragms or members beingconnected by a compression plate 17 extending under the center girder. Abracket 18 is located between the center girder members in line with thebolster members and provided with a socket for a king pin. The upperedges of the bolster diaphragms or members are connected by atensionplate 19.

At each end of the hopper bottom a floor section 20 is hinged andprovided with reinforcing channel bars 2l which, when said floor sectionis ina horizontal position, will restupon the tension member 19 of thebolster. A fixed floor section 22 is located upon the center girder land projects laterally in both directions therefrom, the outer edges oitsaid lixed floor section being secured to furring strips 23 mounted inrecesses 24: in the cross-bearer. At the side edges of' the fixed floorsection 22, iioor sections 25 have ing reinforcing bars 26, are hingedand are of suiicient width to extend to the side sills when inhorizontal position and thus coperate with the fixed floor section 22 tocover the hopper bottom when it is desired to use the car as a gondolacar. For the purpose of effecting the hinge connection between the floorsections 25 and the fixed floor section 22, brackets 27 are secured tothe furring strip 23 at the edges of the xed floor section and each ofsaid brackets is provided at its upper` end with a hinge pin 29. Eachfloor section 25 is provided with a hinge member 30 having a rib whichconstitutes the reinforcement 26 for said iioor section and at one endthis hinge member is provided with a hook shaped portion 31 to engagethe hinge pin 29. i

In order to prevent the clogging of material between the hinged edge ofeach floor section 25 and the adjacent fixed floor section 22, a plate32 is secured to each floor section 25 and the edge of this plate whichterminates in close proximity to the edge of the xed floor section 22 iscurved as shown at 33 so as to conform to the curvature of the hookportion 31 of the hinge member and thus permit the floor section 25 tobe moved to the positions indicated in Fig. 1 with the upper edges ofthe floor-sections at one side of the center girder resting against theupper edges of the iioor sections 25 at the other side of the centergirder. Then the iioor sections 25 are in these positions, the hopperbottom will be uncovered and material can be discharged through thelatter,-the escape of such material being controlled by means of hopperdoors 34 hinged at their upper edges to the center girder and adapted attheir lower edges to engage the lower edges of thehopper plates 10. Anysuitable means may be employed for closing said hopper doors andmaintaining them closed.

lVhen the car is to be converted to the gondola type, the floor sections25 will be disposed horizontally so as to cover the hopper bottom andthe floor sections 2O will be lowered as shown in full lines in Fig. 2and a plank 35 is secured to the end of the framework and in effectconstitute an extension of the car floor.

The sides of the car are composed of hinged doors 36,-said doors beinghinged at their upper ends between side stakes 37 secured at their lowerends to the side sills of the car and in order to properly brace theupper ends of said stakes, the latter are connected by angle-beams 88.The hinged doors have secured thereto, reinforcing bars 39 and to thelower ends of said doors anglebars 40 are secured. Door operating shafts41 are mounted under the car floor and inside the side sills. Chains 42are connected with the angle 40 at the lower ends of the side doors 36and wound on the shaft 4l for the purpose of closing said doors andmaintaining them closed.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is,-

1. In a dumping car, the combination with car sides and a center girder,of a hopper bottom having portions at both sides of the center girderand between the latter and the car sides, a fixed floor section over thecenter girder and projecting at its side edges over t-he portions of thehopper bottom at respective sides of the center girder, floor sectionshinged to the projecting edges of the fixed floor section7 and bolsterssecured to the center girder and the car sides beyond said hopperbottom.

2. In a dumping car, the combination with car sides, a center girder anda cross-bearer, of hopper plates secured to the cross-bearer anddepending below the same, hopper ends secured to the outer ends of thehopper plates and to the center girder, and hopper doors hinged to thecenter girder and adapted at their free edges to engage the lower endsof the hopper plates.

3. In a dumping car, the combination with car sides, a center girder anda cross-bearer, of hopper plates secured to said cross-bearer anddepending below the same, braces secured tothe lower portions of saidhopper plates and to the car sides, hopper ends secured to the outerends of the hopper plates and to the center girder, and hinged doors forthe hoppers connected with the center girder.

4. In a dumping car, the combination with side sills, a center girderand a hopper bottom, of a fixed floor section located over the centergirder and overhanging portions of the hopper bottom, floor sectionshinged at the overhanging side edges of the fixed floor section andadapted to extend therefrom to the side sills, stakes secured to theside sills, and car sides supported by said stakes.

5. In adumping car, the combination with car sides, a center girder anda hopper bottom, of a fixed oor section located over the center girderand projecting laterally over portions of the hopper bottom atrespective sides of the center girder, and fioor sections hinged at thelaterally projecting edges of the fixed licor section and adapted toextend therefrom to the car sides.

6. In a dumping car, the combination with side sills, a center girderand a hopper bottom, of a fixed floor section disposed over the centergirder and projecting laterally in both directions therefrom, floorsections hinged at their innerV edges at the outer edges of the fixedfloor sections and adapted to extend to the side sills, side stakessecured to the side sills, side doors hinged at their upper ends betweenthe side stakes and constituting the car sides and means for operatingsaid doors.

7. In a dumping car, the combination with car sides, a center girder anda hopper bottom, of a fixed floor section over the center girder andprojecting in both directions laterally therefrom, brackets secured atthe outer edges of said fixed floor section and provided with hingepins, movable floor sections, hinge members secured to said movablefloor sections and provided with hook shaped portions to engage saidhinge pin, and plates secured to said movable floor seetions and having`curved edges in line With ing Witnesses.

ANTON BECKER.

and conforming t0 the contour, substantially, Witnesses: of the hookedshaped portions of the hinge F. R. HOOVER, members'. IDA HELSEL.

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